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THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON 



Tabular List (continued). 



[June 18, 



8. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. — 

 No. X. On the Collection made by Mr. A. H. Everett 

 in the Island of Bohol. By Arthur, Marquis of 

 TweeddalEj F.R.S., President of the Society. 



[Eeoeived June 14, 1878.] 



The island of Bohol lies between Leyte and Zebu, and is situated 

 about seventy miles N.W. of Mindanao. It has a length of about 

 forty miles and a breadth of thirty miles. After leaving Leyte, Mr. 

 Everett stopped for a week at Talibon, on the north coast of the 

 island, and then left for Palawau, while his brother proceeded to the 

 interior of the island to collect. There he found a country covered 

 with grass 12 feet high, and with no forest except on the tops of a 

 few hills. Birds were scarce ; and he had to return stricken with 

 fever. The collection obtained in North Bohol contains representa- 

 tives of 47 species ; and although all belong to previously known 

 birds, seven of them have not been hitherto recorded as being 

 inhabitants of the Philippines. These are : — 



Cisticola cursitans. Linwsa lapponica. 



Alauda wattersi. Tringa albescens. 



Terekia cinerea. Strepsilas interpret. 

 Limicola platyrhyncha . 



The rest of the species are generally distributed throughout 

 the archipelago, with perhaps the exceptions of Lanius nasutus, 

 which appears to be a northern form, and Orthotomus frontalis and 

 Loriculus hartlaubi, which are southern species. 



